🚀 Whatnot
Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work.
Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.
Did we mention we’re high growth? In January 2021, Whatnot had 10 ambitious employees. Today, the Whatnot team is 160+ employees and will exceed 300 by year end. We’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can adapt quickly, and are scaling fully remotely .
📈 Opportunity Size
The e-commerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is one of the largest opportunities for disruption in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $300B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!
💻 The role
Payments at Whatnot makes the money flow and orders happen. The team’s scope is large, encompassing pay, fraud, and shipping. Engineers own these entire flows from user experience, to vendor integrations, to in-house infrastructure. Last year we moved >$150m through these pipelines and shipped millions of products to users. This year we’re aiming to 10x those numbers.
We are building multiple core technologies in Ireland over the next few years - from initial spec to delivery and operations. You will bring your creativity, technical expertise and curiosity and make an enormously impactful contribution to one of the fastest growing marketplaces in history.
The software team has a lot of individual responsibility and many more freedoms, so we need to hire great people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential to us.
👋 About You
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript - knowledge of these in particular not required).
- Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
- You can mentor others, and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams.
- You can juggle short term needs with long term requirements and make the correct tradeoff between both for what's in the long term interest of our business.
- You're comfortable owning a large focus area.
- You can delegate with ease, and be supportive to the engineers on your team(s).
- You're a strong cross-functional communicator.
- Engineers look up to you, and enjoy your contributions to solving their problems.
- You are an Engineering leader that is empowered and capable of directing your and the team's work.
- You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast.
- You're an excellent problem solver and don't need to be told exactly what to do.
- You're open to doing frontend work when required.
- Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly.
- Proven track record of delivering features.
- Experience with payment systems, infrastructure or experiences. (nice to have)
- Startup experience at a high-growth company. (nice to have)
🎁 Benefits
- A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback.
- Competitive base salary and stock options
- Unlimited Vacation Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
- Comprehensive Health Insurance and Paid Parental Leave
- Work From Home Support
- Monthly allowance to spend within Whatnot app
💛 EOE
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.